Why isn't Pushkin more well known in the west, especially when compared to other Russian authors?
He's like the third most well known one
>>25251558Nah that would probably Chekhov
Sanity check blud. He killed you.
>>25251558maybe but the gap between him and Tolstoy/ Dostoyevsky is massive, especially considering that in Russia, its the opposite, with Pushkin being THE national author
>>25251556Poetry is difficult to translate. In addition, he lacks the global nature of his work that Tolstoy and Dostoevsky had. He is very Russian. However, he is much more famous than Taras Shevchenko or Adam Mickiewicz.
>>25251572I mean, he is their national poet after all.
most of his work is poetry therefore it's not gonna be popular because translating poetry is redundantsame reason why edgar allan poe isn't all that well-known outside of the anglostani sphere, since not everyone speaks english well-enough to comprehend his poetry
>>25251565Ha. No.
>>25251556The west is too racist to appreciate this distinguished Black man
>>25251615what's weird is that europeans see more genius/value in poe than americans do. americans see poe as the first horror writer, europeans see him as one of america's great literary minds
>>25251615>same reason why edgar allan poe isn't all that well-known outside of the anglostani sphereThat's bollocks, Poe is very well-known in Germany. Bottom's Dream is modeled after Poe AFAIK.
Sheeeeeiityyy Pushkin was da bes Rushin arthur he akchully nvinted lirachurr! His 1/8th blackness made him xtra smart n sheit
>>25251556Pushkin at pushkin’s best achieves something like the epic, but the failed complicated epic of the decembrist revolt, poems gathered from the dying embers of the romantic movement in russian literature that would stay in abeyance till the advent of belinksy and the realists and the abolition of the serfs later in the century brought or summoned russian literature back once again to the theme and heights of the epic
His magnum opus is Eugene Onegin and it has no good translation. The only way you can actually enjoy it is to listen to it in Russia while using Nabokov's translation as subtitles, but this is extremely enjoyable. However Nabby's translation sucks except as subtitles, and the other translations are all liberal in a way that undermines Pushkin's excellent wit
>>25252124What about other Slavic language translations.
>>25252162I don't know anything about those but I would have though Pushkin was recognized in all Slavic countries
i've heard that pushkin invented many idioms that russians use today. when i read shalespeare and he says "wear my heart on my sleeve" i say "oh, that's where it's from". i don't think non-english speakers would enjoy that as much.
>>25251615Poe was/is very popular in France
>>25251662The united states has never been very keen on belles-lettres, something twain engraved on a wooden board before writing a word, part of the hyperbole of poe’s theory of composition was that that theory of composition was written in grahams, grahams which if griswald is any indication, griswald who would go on to savage poe in a biography, was as much given to gossip as anything else but from this something like a literary theory of self referentiality emerges along with the feeling that the failing of the french revolution seems to make everything much more dreary on the literary scene during those years and that might be part of the thread that seems to run through the literature of the nineteenth century and pushkin and poe both are writers where often that literary affect of that manifests as an added psychological dimension to material that might have been called stock, though that needs more examine perhaps because no one seems to have applauded pushkin for the adding of those insight nor can those insights can be said to be absent from the traditional folk material from which was drawn excel that often was just a writer from a few years ago and not a relic though possibly a relic depending on literature anyway this was this atmosphere where increased self awareness if not developed at least took awareness as that as something that was in prose as a quality that might occasionally get appreciated although the state of belles-lettres does leave one in doubt about whether such an event ever any occurred at all where self-awareness was appreciated along with belles-lettres differing so much from the current united states states of things where those things are derided and the value of belles-lettres is not rated very high
